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Creative License: The Political Art of DonkeyHotey

by Stephanie Schroeder

• December 5, 2014

I learned about the caricatures by DonkeyHotey when I saw one of the artist’s creations on the Constitutional Law Profs Blog. Someone remarked on an illustration of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and I was…

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Prison Reports: Feeling Black After Ferguson and Staten Island

by Rahsaan Thomas

• December 4, 2014

Life of the Law is proud to feature contributions to our magazine from inmates at San Quentin State Prison. Today, Rahsaan Thomas reflects on Ferguson from inside. If you know what’s happening right now in Ferguson, Missouri,…

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Cosby: In Memoriam

by Katrin Higher

• December 3, 2014

I was a slow, picky and defiant eater growing up (unless it was Spaghetti-Os or pizza) and spent most nights after dinner alone at the kitchen table after the rest of my family had sauntered…

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Trigger Warnings in Academia: What’s Really at Issue?

by Stephanie Schroeder

• December 2, 2014

If you haven’t been in a college classroom lately, you might not know that many syllabi contain trigger warnings about historical depictions, violent language and graphic images that might appear in class materials and which some…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• December 1, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world. Looking ahead… Egypt is erupting with protests as charges against Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former president, were dropped. He appeared in the courtroom on a stretcher….

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The Limits of the Law: A Review of Ian McEwan’s Latest Novel, The Children Act

by Cindy Hong

• November 28, 2014

British novelist Ian McEwan is interested in the profound consequences of hastily made decisions on the lives of ordinary people. In his most famous work, Atonement, a young girl’s mistaken report of her sister’s rape…

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Did the AP Violate Journalistic Ethics by Posting the Full Bill Cosby Interview? The Answer.

by Fred Brown

• November 26, 2014

The Bill Cosby sexual predator story line just keeps spooling along, and now it has led to a discussion of whether the Associated Press and its entertainment reporter, Brett Zongker, violated some standard of journalistic…

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5 Serial/Serious links for Serious/Serial Listeners

by Life of the Law

• November 25, 2014

Are you obsessed with the new podcast Serial? Join the club. We have collected some of the best links around the web for Serial listeners for whom the podcast itself is not enough. Read on. 1. Reddit…

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law

by Life of the Law

• November 24, 2014

This week in the law, UVA takes dramatic action toward ending sexual assault on campus, a new alternative court appears in NYC, and the Bill Cosby saga worsens.

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Cruel and Unusual…Depending on the State

by Sayre Quevedo

• November 21, 2014

The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles aren’t okay, even for murder. But what about the juveniles who were already serving them? Whether that decision applies to them depends on the state.